lxxxii. best american short stories 2009, alice sebold
good collection! not many which weren't immediately recognisable as 'really good'. yup really specific
lxxxiii. best american essays 1992, susan sontag
now this i can get specific about. i expected more. maybe it was the time or maybe it was the editor, but 90% of the essays were not topical, and could have been written any time, not specifically in 1991. i mean, the topics were historical, literally. they could have been titled 'on audubon', 'on why hamlet sucks', 'on famous paintings i don't like', 'on why i don't like england because i don't like england', 'on mickey mouse and how because he is important to me he is important to america in 1991 because i am john updike', 'on arias which shaped me as a gay man and here i am showing off my musicianship essay writing skills'.......
.......you understand.
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